Around The Farm - Seeds, Flowers And Hens

I finally decided it was time to plant my seed trays, but this being my first attempt at such an endeavor, I tried to organize things:

I planted almost all (I ran out of one kind of seed before I finished all the cups) of the seeds I'd planned to sow in the trays and covered them with their clear plastic dome lids. The six baby roses were blooming in a row behind them:

 This was my plan for seed tray number one:

 And for seed tray number two:

One of the new baby roses was just coming into bloom, called Sevillana. It is advertised to be a fiery red, zone 3 hardy, prolific and continuously blooming rose with a mild fragrance and beautiful rose hips in the fall. I never saw the brown spots on the outside petal until I cropped the photo. Then I went back to make sure they weren't insects. It turned out to be dust, which all fell off when I touched the flower:

 The next day, all the dust was gone and the little rose was opening like - well, just like a rose:

 Outdoors, the Daffodil row was blooming happily:

 The newest flowers were the yellow ones, a variety which, if I remember correctly, were called King Alfred:

 The little hens seemed happy and healthy in their room inside the barn and continued to average about three eggs per day, a reasonable amount. I several times scrambled a dozen eggs for the dogs. I will not try to feed the dogs three dozen again:

 I removed the farm sign from its stand at the edge of the road as it was rapidly deteriorating and I don't think anyone noticed it anyway. I hung it against the east wall inside the barn:

 One side had lost much of its paint but of course I put the good side out. Now I hope it will last for many years, maybe even long after I'm gone, as a remembrance of my retirement effort:

 I noticed the Lilac bushes putting forth leaves as well as buds which looked like tiny bunches of grapes. I had to take many pictures because they were never in focus. I finally tried putting my hand behind the buds and that told the camera where to focus. It also gave a size perspective for the tiny buds: